. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ^^,BeT. Pil> A Garnetts Fosjtion ^^ifcTT- ¥\ COMBAT AT iMor-rllr ■■ hi RICH MOUNTAIN FItosecransZineof3rczrcTi y sca^l£_of mi_les^ 132 MCCLELLAN IN IVEST l^ than he at first intended, and it took ten hours of severe marching and mountain climbing to reach the Hart fai-m. The turning movement was made, but he found an enemy opposing him. Pegram had detached about 350 men from the 1300 which he had, and had ordered them to guard the road at the mountain summit. He sent w
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ^^,BeT. Pil> A Garnetts Fosjtion ^^ifcTT- ¥\ COMBAT AT iMor-rllr ■■ hi RICH MOUNTAIN FItosecransZineof3rczrcTi y sca^l£_of mi_les^ 132 MCCLELLAN IN IVEST l^ than he at first intended, and it took ten hours of severe marching and mountain climbing to reach the Hart fai-m. The turning movement was made, but he found an enemy opposing him. Pegram had detached about 350 men from the 1300 which he had, and had ordered them to guard the road at the mountain summit. He sent with them a single cannon from the four which constituted his only Ijattery, and they threw together a breastwork of logs. The tmnjiike at Harts nins in a depression of the summit, and as Rose- crans, early in the afternoon, came out upon the road, he was warmly received by lx)th musketry and cannon. The ground was rough, the men were for the first time under flie, and the skirmishing combat varied through two or thiee hours, when a charge by part of Rosecrauss line, aided by a few hea\-y volleys from another portion of his forces which had secmed a good position, Ijroke the enemys line. Reenforcements from PegTam were nearly at hand, with another cannon, but they did not com
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